Facts About SPAM!

Spam. The very word is almost a four letter expletive these days something that should never be uttered in polite society. One place where it should most definitely never be voiced is in the world of internet business. One great anecdote is from Microsoft's own Bill Gates:

"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick."

If the pioneer of the personal computer isn't immune to spam then who is? Now this article is not here to go on and on about what spam is because everybody should know – it is those annoying advertisements sent via email. Instead we want to show how spam can affect affiliate marketing.

What is affiliate marketing? The promotion and selling of products online by an affiliate on behalf of a company. So one may logically assume that by "spamming" or sending out advertisements to as many emails as possible then they will target a vast and enormous audience and in turn achieve more sales, ergo more money. Well this is a extremely simplified and just wrong view. Indeed Spam can actually hurt your affiliate. Up to 80% of all email these days is categorized as ‘spam' and many of these come from affiliate marketers believing that spam is the best way in which to promote, expose and gain their product recognition.

What the most likely result of spamming to gain recognition is that the recipient will just delete the message and block any further messages coming from that email address. So in essence before you have even made your first affiliate marketing sale your email if blacklisted. Certainly not what an aspiring entrepreneur will want. Furthermore you could very well be breaking the law. In 2007 Robert Soloway lost a court case which was brought against him by an Oklahoma based Internet Service Provider; they accused him of spamming. He was ordered to pay over $10 million in compensation for his actions.

In the UK in the same year Gordon Dick successful won the sum of £1368.66 against Transcom Internet Services for spamming his email account. And these are not the only two cases on record that have brought spammers to court. Spamming for attention is a mistake that so many affiliate marketers make. More often than not it ends their affiliate market careers but more server it can land them in court with a hefty fine and blacklisted name.

yes and spamming is increasing in India also.
I've read this before and it is quite true about SPAM. it's a funny acronym for it.

S- Stupid
P- Person
A- Above
M- Me

sometimes because of spamming they always get the top searches (but only for a short time).